Kindred: Style 1 key example

Chapter 4: The Fight
Explanation and Analysis:

In Kindred, Butler adopts a style that emphasizes the continuities and discontinuities between the past and the present. When Dana travels to the past against her will, she brings her 20th-century values and beliefs with her. However, her experiences on the Weylin Plantation begin to affect her outlook as she both grows increasingly accustomed to the violence she witnesses daily and learns more about people who lived their whole lives under conditions of slavery.